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From: laura@l5.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: capitalism vs. democracy???
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 15:46:34 EST
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In article <1931@psuvax1.UUCP> berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman) writes:
>
>As a rotten relativist, I open Even Better Bank & Trust open day and 
>night, only to vanish after accepting first 1 million dollars in
>deposits (no, I am rather honest, I wold rather return from the
>futures exchange and say: sorry, I lately realized that currency
>futures are not conservative investments after all).  Not only I will
>deprive my depositors of the product of their toil, I will also
>scare to death your depositors.

I don't think so.  What will happen is that I will advertise that I am
trustworthy and you are not.  It is difficult to build a reputation for
trustworthiness (in that it doesn't happen in a hurry) but it is difficult
to lose one in a hurry as well.  Maybe I should run the banking division of
Pinkertons or Brinks...



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Laura Creighton		
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